Cadence Design Systems introduced PowerMeter functionality that extends its dynamic power rail analysis solution with signoff-quality power calculation. Using dynamic power calculation algorithms, PowerMeter enables design teams to accurately calculate and distribute leakage, internal and switching power consumption for every instance of their design. When used with the Dynamic Gate (DG) option to the VoltageStorm® power analysis solution, PowerMeter calculates the distributed dynamic power used to drive the dynamic rail analysis of a design. At and beyond the 130-nanometer process node, static power rail verification methodologies must be complemented with dynamic analysis to consistently achieve working silicon. Designers can control significant IR drop transients on the power rails by adding de-coupling capacitance.
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